Holy Smoke turns your ashes into bullets

If turning your ashes
into vinyl is a bit pretentious for you, then how about
bullets instead? An Alabama company called Holy Smokes will make
your final remains into ammunition.

The company was started by Thad Holmes and Clem Parnell, a pair
of game wardens and gun enthusiasts. The idea was born during a
late-night vigil against illegal hunters on their reservation --
one of Parnell's relatives had recently passed away, and the pair
began discussing how little they liked the traditional means of
ceremonial burial.

The duo came up with the idea of putting ashes into shotgun
shells, or rifle and pistol cartridges, which could then be fired as part of the
commemoration of death, or kept for as long as the family desired.
"People take ashes and spread them across lakes or forests or throw
them in rivers, and nobody thinks twice about that. This is no
different," Holmes told Reuters.

Half a kilogram of ashes will fill about 250 shotgun shells, and
the average body produces between two and three kilos of ash when
cremated. The price of the service begins around 850 dollars, and
while the company has only produced bullets for two sets of ashes
so far, the company has signed up a number of people who wish to
have their remains turned into ammunition when the time comes. Others have asked for the
service for their pets.